Firetail
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Classification:
3 W-R[ Small-Cupped ]
Season:
Late
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Hybridizer:

Ernest M. Crosfield

d 1925

Raised daffodils 1898-1915. Frodsham, Cheshire, England; Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales; Cossington, Somerset, England; Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales

Ernest M. Crosfield
, England, UK
Registered:
Yes, before 1910
Awards:

FCC Haarlem Award

This plant earned the First Class Certificate (FCC).

Given on the recommendation of Committees to plants of outstanding excellence for exhibition.

Awarded by the Dutch "Koninklijke Algemeene Vereeniging voor Bloembollencultuur" (KAVB), or in English, the "Royal General Bulbgrowers' Association" from Haarlem, the Netherlands, in 1925.FCC Haarlem 1925; 

AM Haarlem Award

This plant earned the Award of Merit (AM).

Given on the recommendation of Committees to plants which are of great merit for exhibition.

Awarded by the Dutch "Koninklijke Algemeene Vereeniging voor Bloembollencultuur" (KAVB), or in English, the "Royal General Bulbgrowers' Association" from Haarlem, the Netherlands, in 1924.AM Haarlem 1924; 

FCC(e) Award

This plant earned the First Class Certificate (FCC).

Given on the recommendation of Committees to plants of outstanding excellence for exhibition

Qualified as a show flower.

Awarded by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1922.FCC(e) 1922; 

AM Award

This plant earned the Award of Merit (AM).

Given on the recommendation of Committees to plants which are of great merit for exhibition.

Awarded by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1920.AM 1920; 
Special Class:
ADS Historics

The ADS defines a Historic Daffodil as any cultivar formally registered with the Royal Horticultural Society or known in gardens prior to 1940.

The year 1939 at the end of this period, marked the beginning of World War II, a time during which fewer new daffodil cultivars were either created or made available, especially in Europe.

The ADS believes this class will interest a segment of exhibitors and may encourage bulb growers to keep these pre-war era cultivars available.

Because Historic daffodils tend to have less form than modern daffodils, they mmay be exhibited in special classes to compete against others iths same class.

Seed Parent: 
(
Mrs. C. Bowley 3 W-O 
William Backhouse, England
Year Registered: 1869
Mrs. C. Bowley
x unknown )
Chromosomes:
21
Pedigree Chart:
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Fertility:
Seed fertile
Used as parent:
2 times as seed
Descendants:
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Comments

Perianth segments broadly ovate, blunt, prominently mucronate, creamy white, spreading, plane, somewhat ribbed, regular, overlapping one-third to a half; the inner segments more narrowly ovate, only very slightly mucronate; corona small, very shallow bowl-shaped, closely ribbed, brilliant deep orange-red.

Synonyms:

'Fire Tail'

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FiretailFiretail, 3 W-R, Ernest M. Crosfield, England, 1910
Photo #60137 Vee Kozma, USAFiretailFiretail, 3 W-R, Ernest M. Crosfield, England, 1910
Photo #60093 Vee Kozma, USAFiretailFiretail, 3 W-R, Ernest M. Crosfield, England, 1910
Photo #60038 Kirby Fong, USAFiretailFiretail, 3 W-R, Ernest M. Crosfield, England, 1910
Photo #52201 Grant E. Mitsch, USAFiretailFiretail, 3 W-R, Ernest M. Crosfield, England, 1910
Photo #50812 Kirby Fong, USAFiretailFiretail, 3 W-R, Ernest M. Crosfield, England, 1910
Photo #45971 Oregon Bulb Farms, USAFiretailFiretail, 3 W-R, Ernest M. Crosfield, England, 1910
Photo #35034 Kirby Fong, USAFiretailFiretail, 3 W-R, Ernest M. Crosfield, England, 1910
Photo #33147 Ian Tyler, EnglandFiretailFiretail, 3 W-R, Ernest M. Crosfield, England, 1910
Photo #25499 Barr Catalog, EnglandFiretailFiretail, 3 W-R, Ernest M. Crosfield, England, 1910
Photo #17886 Albert F. Calvert, EnglandFiretailFiretail, 3 W-R, Ernest M. Crosfield, England, 1910
Photo #17885 Albert F. Calvert, EnglandFiretailFiretail, 3 W-R, Ernest M. Crosfield, England, 1910
Photo #12899 Drew Mc Farland, USAFiretailFiretail, 3 W-R, Ernest M. Crosfield, England, 1910
Photo #12521 Mary Lou Gripshover, USAFiretailFiretail, 3 W-R, Ernest M. Crosfield, England, 1910
Photo #11363 Old House Gardens Heirloom Bulbs, USAFiretailFiretail, 3 W-R, Ernest M. Crosfield, England, 1910
Photo #9086 Kirby Fong, USAFiretailFiretail, 3 W-R, Ernest M. Crosfield, England, 1910
Photo #6198 Willis H. Wheeler, USA